Piperade Salad With Olives Recipe - Cooking Index
This colorful dish plays with the Basque saute of red and green bell peppers. The Sherry wine vinegar gives the salad a delicious sweet-tangy edge.
Courses: Salads| 1/3 cup | 78ml | Extra-virgin olive oil |
| 2 | Garlic cloves - thinly sliced | |
| 1 | Red onion - halved, sliced (large) | |
| 2 | Red bell peppers - cut 1/2"-wide strips (large) | |
| 1 | Yellow bell pepper - cut 1/2"-wide strips (large) | |
| 1 | Green bell pepper - cut 1/2"-wide strips (large) | |
| 2 tablespoons | 30ml | Sherry wine vinegar |
| 1/2 cup | 73g / 2.6oz | Coarsely-chopped pitted Kalamata olives |
| = ( or other brine-cured black olives) | ||
| Salt - to taste | ||
| Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste |
Heat olive oil in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add sliced garlic and stir 30 seconds. Add red onion slices and saute until beginning to soften, about 5 minutes.
Add all peppers and saute until crisp-tender, about 7 minutes.
Stir in Sherry wine vinegar, then olives. Season salad generously with salt and pepper. Cool completely. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Bring to room temperature before serving.)
This recipe yields 8 servings.
Source:
Bon Appetit, August 2002
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